RUDY RIPS GOV’S BID FOR GAY NUPS

Contents:

• RUDY GIULIANI ALLEGEDLY BREAKS PROMISE TO MARRY GAY FRIENDS
• GIULIANI BROKE HIS VOW TO WED US: GAY FRIEND
• RUDY GIULIANI WON'T MARRY HIS GAY FRIENDS AFTER ALL
• GAY-WED OPPONENT RUDY SKIPS PALS’ NUPS
• RUDY GIULIANI ON GAY MARRIAGE: REPUBLIN PARTY SHOULD 'GET THE HECK OUT OF PEOPLE'S BEDROOMS'
• RUDY RIPS GOV’S BID FOR GAY NUPS
• GIULIANI TO GOP ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'STAY OUT OF '
• BROKEN VOWS: GIULIANI MAY BREAK PROMISE TO PRI OVER GAY FRIEND'S WEDDG
• RUDY BLASTS PATERSON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PH
• FORMER NYC MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI TO REPUBLINS: 'STAY OUT OF GAY ISSUE'

RUDY GIULIANI ALLEGEDLY BREAKS PROMISE TO MARRY GAY FRIENDS

Rudy Giuliani appears to have broken a long-held promise to marry his gay iends, the New York Post Koeppel, the r aler who provid a crash pad for Giuliani 2001 for six months durg his divorce battle, recently spoke to the Post about a promise he says the former New York Cy mayor ma to him a ago. "Although progrs has been ma achievg equal rights for gay upl to marry New York, there is work still to be done. Polil nsultant Stt Levenson told the Post that one possible reason Giuliani may be avoidg the New York gay weddg is bee "would be a sign he's no longer terted nng [as a Republin] for print -- ever.

" When a group of former New York Cy mayors created vios March voicg their support for gay marriage, Rudy Giuliani was noticeably gay marriage was legalized New York, NBC New York reported that Giuliani said, "I still favor marriage as beg fed between a man and a woman but I pletely unrstand what people are strivg for... "But do Giuliani's weak stance on gay marriage support that very discrimatn?

GIULIANI BROKE HIS VOW TO WED US: GAY FRIEND

The gay bsman who let Rudy Giuliani stay at his home durg the then-mayor's public divorce saga 2001 claims the one-time printial ndidate is backg off his promise to officiate at his weddg now that gay marriage is legal New York. Giuliani said he would if gay marriage ever beme legal New York, Koeppel tells the New York Post.

RUDY GIULIANI WON'T MARRY HIS GAY FRIENDS AFTER ALL

Rudy Giuliani Won't Marry His Gay Friends After AllTen years ago, Rudy Giuliani's send divorce was not gog well.

GAY-WED OPPONENT RUDY SKIPS PALS’ NUPS

A gay uple, Howard Koeppel and Mark Hsiao offered their midtown apartment to the then-Mayor Giuliani, who end up livg there for six months. ' "RELATED: New York Gay Marriage Vote Unlikely TonightGay marriage is now legal New York state, and Rudy Giuliani is nowhere to be found.

RUDY GIULIANI ON GAY MARRIAGE: REPUBLIN PARTY SHOULD 'GET THE HECK OUT OF PEOPLE'S BEDROOMS'

"RELATED: New York Cy Now Looks to Cash on Gay WeddgsSo Giuliani do not support the "burn of discrimatn, " but he do personally discrimate agast same-sex upl? The Boston Globe reported 2007 that Giuliani flipped his viewpot on civil unns and argued for fewer rights to be given to gay upl than civil unn proposals at the time suggted. RELATED: Hymns and Dirty Lndry: New York Gay Marriage Bill Tts PatienceAs got closer to the 2010 gubernatorial electns, Giuliani angered gay rights groups for playg more unabashedly to the Republin base.

RUDY RIPS GOV’S BID FOR GAY NUPS

Giuliani voiced his support for civil unns once aga but lambasted then-Governor David Patterson's support for gay marriage.

"I thk gay marriage will obvly be an issue for any Republin next year bee Republins are eher favor of the posn I'm favor of, civil unns, or many s Republins don't even favor civil unns, " Guiliani told the New York Post. "RELATED: The Most Histrnic Conservative Reactns to Gay MarriageOf urse, 's been ten years sce Giuliani ma promised Koeppel and Hsiao he would marry them.

GIULIANI TO GOP ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'STAY OUT OF '

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was a last-mute no-show at the weddg of his former roommat — a gay uple — yterday.

BROKEN VOWS: GIULIANI MAY BREAK PROMISE TO PRI OVER GAY FRIEND'S WEDDG

At the time, Giuliani ducked the qutn about whether livg wh a gay uple had changed his longstandg opposn to gay marriage. “I don’t relate to people as whe, black, Catholic, Prottant, Jewish, gay, lbian, heterosexual, ” the then-mayor told reporters at Gracie Mansn.

RUDY BLASTS PATERSON'S GAY-MARRIAGE PH

Giuliani has stated he has no problem wh civil unns but told The Post he’d speak out agast gay marriage if he ns for ernor. Connecticut November allowed gays to marry. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani warned the Republin party to "move on" om s opposn to gay marriage an terview wh Candy Crowley on CNN's "State of the Unn" Sunday.

FORMER NYC MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI TO REPUBLINS: 'STAY OUT OF GAY ISSUE'

Same-sex marriage is shapg up as a hot-button 2010 issue both New York and natnally, and Giuliani’s ments generated a quick backlash om gay rights groups, which had nsired Giuliani an ally durg his days Gracie Mansn.

Steve Ralls, spokman for Parents, Fai & Friends of Lbians & Gays, asserted Giuliani was “stakg out posns simply for polil ga” and lled his stance “an almost unprecented flip-flop for a polician who was once viewed as one of the most morate, and most gay-iendly, voic the Republin Party. Joe Solmone, print of the powerful gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, said a statement: “One would thk that Rudy would unrstand the importance of havg the chance, or his se, the chanc, to marry the one you love. “Giuliani has been a iend of this anizatn the past, and we would certaly wele him as a iend of this anizatn now and the future, ” said Angelo, whose group reprents gay Republins and supports same sex marriage.